Battlefords News-Optimist

It's a big weekend for Battleford, starting Friday with the opening of the 2014 Saskatchewan Handcraft Festival. The festival is organized each year by the Saskatchewan Craft Council and draws crafters from across Western Canada.

After 21 years as a teacher and school administrator, and a further decade as a superintendent in the Living Sky School Division central office, Brian Quinn is retiring.

After attending the Embroidery Association of Canada's annual seminar in Ottawa, Ont.

The North Battleford RCMP received more than 30 calls between 6 a.m. Thursday, July 10 and 6 a.m. Friday, July 11. Among those calls were three false alarms and two non-emergency 911 calls. Thursday 9:24 a.m.

Anyone who has ever downloaded free software has probably experienced the annoyance of discovering that the program came with a toolbar or some other program he or she didn't ask for.

Proponents of reviving downtown North Battleford will no doubt be interested in the announcement from the province about its Main Street Saskatchewan program.

A pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle Friday night south of Leoville. At approximately 10:21 p.m.,Spiritwood RCMP receiveda complaint of a pedestrian standing in the middle of Highway 24 south of Leoville.

A secret weapon has been unleashed to fight leafy spurge in the Battlefords area.

North Battleford Fire Department reports a mechanical failure is the likely cause of a vehicle fire firefighters responded to Thursday. One fire truck and eight firefighters were called out at just after 1 p.m.

Saskatchewan Co-op food stores will carry more than one million pounds of local produce, according to a Federated Co-operatives press release. The release says that figure represents a 66 per cent increase over last year.